City’s New Kits

I took the little ones to the stadium/shop last week and saw a blue walking around in next season's unreleased away kit (black/red diagonal stripes) and wasn't sure what to make of it.

I'm sure I'll warm to it when I see Haaland parading about in it but until now, not 100% sure.
 
Corky said:
Ship motif representing the Manchester Ship Canal on rear of neck -I though the ship predated the canal and also the canal isn't in Manchester is it?
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I read that the ship does predate the canal:

"• The ship in full sail is a reference to the city's growing trade and enterprise"

BBC - Manchester - History - The antelope, the lion and the bees

With Manchester City Council's announcement that the city's creative director Peter Saville is looking at new designs for their corporate identity, there's a chance to take a closer look at their existing emblem, the official Manchester coat of arms.
www.bbc.co.uk

The Mersey is the source. The canal flows through to what was called the Port of Manchester (in Salford). The whole thing was a huge two fingers up to Liverpool. Priceless. Well, actually expensive BUT without it, Manchester would be tiny or a heavy contributor to Liverpool's finances. Hugely groundbreaking history centric to our city.

Birmingham may be the city of canals with more miles (56km/35 miles) of canals than Venice (42km/26 miles) but Manchester started the modern canal trend. The Bridgewater Canal runs from Runcorn to Leigh via Manchester. There was no river or stream. It was all dug in deep and long. Since 1761, steamboats, barges and small boats have utilised this modern canal. Used to ferry cotton goods and materials from the sea by Runcorn to Manchester and beyond, and vice versa, the canal was a great innovation. But, after over a hundred years if use it got mucky and couldn’t handle the traffic. Small ships could no longer navigate the near-impassable rivers Mersey and Irwell. The Irish Sea was an awfully long way away.

Geeky stuff here:

Bypassing Liverpool since ’94​

 
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skillman said:
I took the little ones to the stadium/shop last week and saw a blue walking around in next season's unreleased away kit (black/red diagonal stripes) and wasn't sure what to make of it.

I'm sure I'll warm to it when I see Haaland parading about in it but until now, not 100% sure.
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Would probably look alright on the players. Personally never been a fan of red or any all striped kits. The fact that it’s diagonal hasn’t made it anymore appealing.
 
citymad said:
Would probably look alright on the players. Personally never been a fan of red or any all striped kits. The fact that it’s diagonal hasn’t made it anymore appealing.
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Yeah I like the red and black stripes historically but I'm struggling to think of a great kit in history for anyone with diagonal stripes.
 
DH GATE snides turned up today, despite me going even bigger size than last year they are still the same as last years fucking shirts, starting to piss me off a bit tbh, I also ordered an NFL jersey in XXL and that is like a tent on me, you can't win lol

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I asked for Kun Aguero on the back, I seem to have got a creative guy who decided I really wanted Agueroooo with the funny dots over the U for some reason.

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A funny shade of maroon on the home shirt, still what do expect for £10 a shirt?

Shirt material feels good quality though.

Ah well, back to the running machine to lose another fucking stone to get a shirt on :(
 
bluealf said:
DH GATE snides turned up today, despite me going even bigger size than last year they are still the same as last years fucking shirts, starting to piss me off a bit tbh, I also ordered an NFL jersey in XXL and that is like a tent on me, you can't win lol

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I asked for Kun Aguero on the back, I seem to have got a creative guy who decided I really wanted Agueroooo with the funny dots over the U for some reason.

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A funny shade of maroon on the home shirt, still what do expect for £10 a shirt?

Shirt material feels good quality though.

Ah well, back to the running machine to lose another fucking stone to get a shirt on :(
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cheers for sharing. Looks like they've made a good effort. Although if I'm being picky with the anniversary shirt, I would say they've got a few of the background prints incorrectly placed on the back & the whilst the Agueroooo lettering is correct as per the original, should have gold outlining instead of solid blue.

As for the 'maroon' collar colouring on the home shirt, certainly looks more red to me unless my eye sight is going. As you said, there's a reason why they're almost 90% cheaper than the originals!
 
bluealf said:
DH GATE snides turned up today, despite me going even bigger size than last year they are still the same as last years fucking shirts, starting to piss me off a bit tbh, I also ordered an NFL jersey in XXL and that is like a tent on me, you can't win lol

View attachment 46303View attachment 46304
I asked for Kun Aguero on the back, I seem to have got a creative guy who decided I really wanted Agueroooo with the funny dots over the U for some reason.

View attachment 46305

A funny shade of maroon on the home shirt, still what do expect for £10 a shirt?

Shirt material feels good quality though.

Ah well, back to the running machine to lose another fucking stone to get a shirt on :(
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As hammersmith lad said, the maroon looks more red than maroon. The collar's wrong anyway because the red / maroon doesn't go all the way round the back.
 
bluealf said:
DH GATE snides turned up today, despite me going even bigger size than last year they are still the same as last years fucking shirts, starting to piss me off a bit tbh, I also ordered an NFL jersey in XXL and that is like a tent on me, you can't win lol

View attachment 46303View attachment 46304
I asked for Kun Aguero on the back, I seem to have got a creative guy who decided I really wanted Agueroooo with the funny dots over the U for some reason.

View attachment 46305

A funny shade of maroon on the home shirt, still what do expect for £10 a shirt?

Shirt material feels good quality though.

Ah well, back to the running machine to lose another fucking stone to get a shirt on :(
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Does the back of the neck look like this?

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youngbob said:
Tempted to buy a City shirt for the first time since the 2013/14 season, when I was 19.
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Cannot wait to find out if you buy one mate...go on...you can do it. Make sure you let us know if you take the plunge haha!!!...the suspense is killing me.
 
bluealf said:
DH GATE snides turned up today, despite me going even bigger size than last year they are still the same as last years fucking shirts, starting to piss me off a bit tbh, I also ordered an NFL jersey in XXL and that is like a tent on me, you can't win lol

View attachment 46303View attachment 46304
I asked for Kun Aguero on the back, I seem to have got a creative guy who decided I really wanted Agueroooo with the funny dots over the U for some reason.

View attachment 46305

A funny shade of maroon on the home shirt, still what do expect for £10 a shirt?

Shirt material feels good quality though.

Ah well, back to the running machine to lose another fucking stone to get a shirt on :(
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And that is why you don't purchase off some
no-mark company.
 
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